UFOMYST
CaseOther1997

Bel Air, MD, USA

Object sited while in stationary position then object zigged down then left then up then right then up into the clouds then reappeared

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 180s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-08-09
Where
Bel Air, MD, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
3 min.
Geo
39.536, -76.348 · exact
Slug
other-over-bel-air-md-1997-41fcdf
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • One of 32 documented reports from Bel Air, MD in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Maryland logged 13 sightings in 1997.
  • Other sightings ran at 8% during the 1990s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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